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RAY TAYLOR
Private First Class · U.S. Army
May 14, 1941 – December 19, 1967
Service recordRay Taylor, of Tazewell, Tennessee, served as a Private First Class in the U.S. Army. He died on December 19, 1967, in Bien Hoa Province, South Vietnam, at age 26. His name is inscribed on Panel 32E, Line 24 of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
On the Wall
Panel 32E · Line 24
Names are inscribed in the order of loss, starting at Panel 1E at the apex and ending at Panel 1W. At the Memorial, find the panel number at the base and count down from the top line.
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Service
- Branch
- U.S. Army
- Rank
- Private First Class (PFC)
- Service
- Regular
- Occupation
- Infantryman (11B)
- Unit (as recorded)
- 9 INF DIV
- Born
- May 14, 1941
- Home of record
- Tazewell, Tennessee (Claiborne County)
Casualty
- Date of death
- December 19, 1967
- Age
- 26
- Province
- Bien Hoa
- Country
- South Vietnam
- Casualty type
- Hostile
- Category
- Killed in Action
- Circumstance
- Small Arms Fire
Context · from the records
What was happening
48 names on the Wall carry the date December 19, 1967; he was the only one lost in Bien Hoa Province that day. In December 1967, 937 Americans whose names are on the Wall died in the war.
The 9th Infantry Division, his unit in the record, lost 45 of its members that month.
Also on Panel 32E, Line 24
- ROBERT DANIEL KLINESpecialist Four · December 19, 1967
- JAMES MARTIN KLOPMEYERPrivate First Class · December 19, 1967
- JEROME F LEVASSEUR JRFirst Lieutenant · December 19, 1967
- JUNIOR EDWARD LOTTCorporal · December 19, 1967
Same unit, same day
- CHARLES RALPH HOLLANDPrivate First Class · Panel 32E, Line 23
- JEROME F LEVASSEUR JRFirst Lieutenant · Panel 32E, Line 24
- GARY LESLIE NORMANCorporal · Panel 32E, Line 26
From Tazewell
- LEON EDWARD BARNARDPrivate First Class · May 31, 1969
- LARRY DALE LOVEAirman First Class · January 15, 1971
Source. U.S. Department of Defense, Defense Casualty Analysis System, Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File (as of April 29, 2008), Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Record Group 330, National Archives (NAID 2240992). Panel and line as recorded in that file. This page presents the official record and its historical context; no biography has been written for him yet. See something wrong? Report a correction.